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1) Tom Sawyer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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A captivating retelling of Mark Twain's classic adventure story. True to the original in plot, character, themes and style, this is an excellent way for a young reader to meet Tom Sawyer for the first time. Tom Sawyer is a respectable boy in a little Mississippi River town. Huck Finn is a freedom-loving, neglected outcast. What better playmate could Tom want?
One night, innocent games of pirates and Robin Hood turn serious when the boys witness a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
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Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...
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Boxcar children volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The Alden children travel on a Mississippi paddle-wheel steamer to visit an old family friend in his cabin near Hannibal, Missouri, and try to discover who is responsible for the mysterious activities near the house.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher, new to St. Petersburg, Missouri, joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas in hopes of meeting a promise to have adventures that she made her brother, Jon, before he died.
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Boxcar children volume 20
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The Alden children travel on a Mississippi paddle-wheel steamer to visit an old family friend in his cabin near Hannibal, Missouri, and try to discover who is responsible for the mysterious activities near the house.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Presents an adaptation of the classic novel which follows the adventures and pranks of a mischievous, good-natured, boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century. Includes review questions.
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Jon and Tania--who can see and communicate with ghosts--journey down the Mississippi River on an antique riverboat in search of ghosts, but the spirit of a pyromaniac, riverboat captain proves dangerous to the siblings and the crew.
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Trixie Belden volume 15
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While on a trip to St. Louis, fourteen-year-old Trixie Belden discovers some mysterious papers in her hotel room and soon realizes that she and her friends are being followed as they cruise in a towboat down the Mississippi River.
10) Huckleberry Finn
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"This is a retelling of the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft in the mid-nineteenth century."--Publisher.